On The Topic of Death

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Death is the fate no one can escape. We could die today; we could die tomorrow morning; Death’s timing is unknown to us. Whether we want to, or ready to, whether we are afraid or not, the day will come when we have to leave this world. Our death is the end of our time on Earth.

The truth is, nothing can live forever. Everyone and everything will die in time. Plants, animals, and people - all will die. Death is a natural part of life. It’s a matter of time before we leave our loved ones, or our loved ones leave us.

We should just accept death as the natural process that it is, happy for the departed because they are now free – no more earthly problems to trouble them. And we should move on too - get on with our lives. If they are truly dear to us, they will live on in our hearts.

Still, I don’t think anybody is necessarily ready for death. We can only hope that when our time comes, we are ready to leave this world with no regrets. Death is shrouded in its own mystery. One can never know beforehand precisely how or when it will come. No matter how prepared we are, it always seems to take us by surprise. Even forewarned we seem unable to contend with the shock or accept it without experiencing deep feelings of fear, superstition, anxiety and isolation.

Unfortunately, the fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying. Realistically, it is the unknown we fear when we look upon death. It is not death, but the not knowing what happens after death that is terrible. We fear what we do not know.

However, so far, there has been no indication that death is anything but the end of a life. And that after your death, you left nothing behind but a pile of ashes. So, there is nothing to fear about death.

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Perhaps a fact of life most conducive to living fully as a person is an honest awareness and acceptance of death.

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